Graphics Guidelines

What?! There are even W3C Recommendations for graphics, too? Find out about SVG and PNG.

Learn about the W3C’s involvement at their Graphics on the Web page, including WebCGM (Computer Graphics Metafile), PNG (Portable Network Graphics) and SVG (Scalable Vector Format). Here are some links below to helpful information, tutorials, and resources at W3C and around the Web.

SVG

SVG W3C Recommendations

SVG Articles and Tutorials

An Introduction to Scalable Vector Graphics by J. David Eisenberg for xml.com, is an excellent introductory tutorial to SVG, including initialization, adding graphic elements, transformations, reusing graphics, grouping objects, rotation, other shapes and paths, adding text, filters. To learn the ins and out of SVG, check out David Eisenberg’s book, SVG Essentials, published by O’Reilly.